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I measured my S2+ with spring bypass and a full-bypass through the PCB to the switch. I am a believer but my multimeter didn’t believe in this.
When measured I tried to keep all variables comparable but this could have been a variety of things. No difference on a FET 219C triple S2+.
What type of Soldering iron are you using? Is it one of those Rat shack brands, or one of those 15watt irons? From the soldering I would say the iron is not that great. The iron is the biggest item to spend money on. Buying a cheap iron and then hoping for good results never works.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MCVCHJM/
I think initially i was only turning it up to 5 or so. I turned it up to between 6 and 7 and let it heat up more on the 2nd attempts. I think part of the problem was that I had so much solder on there from redoing it that it looks sloppy no matter what. I’m using solder with rosin core so I thought the smoking was maybe too much but I think that’s just the rosin doing its job.
Not the best iron but it should do that job. This Iron is not cheap but compared to what you have it’s very high quality. Hakko FX888D It does look like you got to much solder on the joint, you should invest in some desoldering braid to pull off the extra solder MG Chemicals Desoldering Braid
here is one I did with Desoldering braid.
Real men also occasionally use teflon insulated silver plated copper wire…
Looks good lotec25. I’m not brave enough to use soldering braid since I’ve heard it’s hard to work with, but it certainly has the flexibility and AWG built in. Richard from Mountain Electronics uses this technique and one of his flashights I bought several years ago is still holding strong. He’s the Master!
Thank you sir. I been soldering for a long time so not new to it. Just new to flashlight building.
I don’t like using the braid for bypasses. It works but eventually with repeated use it eventually breaks. I’d had them from Richard and other builders and even me. If you have a light with heavy use in my experience the braid always breaks at some point. Now if it’s a light you change the battery once a month or few months it will probably last year’s. But daily or twice daily wire is the only way to go.
Ok i’m making some more progress. Started with a virgin S2+ switch and i feel like this was much better. I still soldered the top two coils together a little and there is a slight ridge from the wire on top but overall seems way better.
Bottom done and top ready for solder:
Top done:
Looking much better
Agreed, much better job.
Yeah, looks better, but you use very big diameter wire there.
20AWG is quite enough.
I picked up 2 different packages of silicone wire.
18 Gauge Silicone Wire
22 Gauge Silicone Wire
I got some 14AWG also, but that was for other projects. 14 Gauge Silicone Wire
I personally prefer 18-20 AWG for spring bypass purposes.
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Here is the wire I used, 22AWG 60 strand: Amazon.com
Maybe it’s just how it looks with the up close camera shot or the insulation is thicker than usual, not sure.
Looks like some good wire to me and 22 AWG should be all that you need. And as others have said, looking much better!
A note regarding the posted images. They display rather huge which when the topic is viewed on a small screen like a phone or tablet makes the text very small and in order to read one must do a lot of finger tip expansion / contraction.
When you post an image , under the field where the image url is inserted there is a field named
“(OPTIONAL) Relative Width (%):”
If you insert 100% the image will then display to fill the available space on the viewers display.
For example,
Now we have a dynamic image display. The image sizes itself, and does not overflow causing text to be small on something like a phone or having to scroll sideways on a laptop. On aPC you can see the effect by viewing on a less than full screen window and sliding the window wider and narrower.
Set the % to 20 and the image appears much smaller…